Alex West,B Mus, has a bachelor’s degree in music performance from Southern Cross University. With more than 25 years experience as an educator and 1nstrumental teacher, he has been a pioneer in music for education, health, well being and aged care. His educational work was honoured by the National Australia…

Ben started playing at the age of 12 through and quickly joined the Billy Hyde Academy under Milan Troha, He later became the events co-coordinator for Drumcraft and put together such events and clinics as the Australian Drummers weekends, Mike Mangini, Pat Torpy, Kenny Aronoff, Jimmy DeGrasso, Grant Collins and…

It’s not often you see a group of Cajons being played at the same time…..however the Cajon Cats are here to show you how it’s done! Hailing from different areas all over Sydney, the group meets weekly in Rockdale to jam some funky grooves on their Cajon box drums! Led…

DAVE GOODMAN presents STICK CONTROL Dave Goodman presents Stick Control featuring the Moeller technique and what he learned from lessons with Jim Chapin and Joe Morello, plus techniques for developing the ability to play accents amongst different sticking patterns as well as methods for creatively developing one’s own vocabulary for…

drumfill is a community percussion ensemble whose members range in age from 5 to 18 years of age. All drumfill members are also members of their school or a community concert band or orchestra when they are old enough to join. There are four drumfill percussion ensembles and they are…

The Sydney Stick’s Dynasty Drumline believes in the power of music. Having the Sydney Sticks at an event brings people together and takes the atmosphere to a new level. As fully mobile entertainers they can grab an audiences’ undivided attention, blow them away with ferocious grooves and show stopping moves. Not just a…

Gary France is a passionate advocate for music education throughout the world. He presents workshops, motivational speeches and concerts in the widest range of musical genres including jazz, commercial, world and classical music’s. He received his Bachelor of Music degree, Music Education, in 1979, from the Crane School of Music,…

Performing at the SYDNEY DRUM & PERCUSSION SHOW with Guitar accompaniment presented by Los Cabos Drumsticks Jake Taylor Sproule is one of Australia’s most respected hard rock and metal drummers, who has played with numerous bands including Necrospyre, Whoretopsy, and Cyaneye. Don’t miss this energetic session with Los Cabos drumsticks…

Also announced for the SD&PS is singer, songwriter, band leader Lozz Benson. Lozz has played and toured with well-established Sydney acts including Urthboy, Pat Capocci, The Drey Rollan Band, Drummer Queens, The JHD Revival Band, Sirens Big Band and Rackett. Lozz is well known and respected in the Sydney music…

Since sitting behind a kit for the first time at the age of 3, Lucius Borich has established a reputation as being one of Australia’s finest and most flexible drummers. In 1998, Lucius formed the highly regarded prog rock band Cog, who have gone on to become one of Australia’s…

We are thrilled to announced acclaimed Belgian drummer Michael Schack. Over the years, Michael has won several awards, has been nominated for “best clinician/ demonstrator” in international drummer magazine polls and just recently (Feb 2017) received the E-drummer Of The Year award for the third time. He’s also an affiliate…

Peter Drummond is one of Australia’s most phenomenal drummers. His relentless pursuit of technical mastery, and his deep-rooted musicality have captured the attention of many of the world’s great drumming artists including: Virgil Donati, Dave Weckl, Thomas Lang and Mike Mangini. His reputation as a producer, composer and teacher is…

Since The Stray Cats first etched their name into rock n roll history with their punkified version of rockabilly in the late 70s, Phantom has been able to trade on that name by touring with various rockabilly flavoured projects. There was Phantom, Rocker and Slick with former Stray Cat bassist…

New Zealand born Stan Bicknell is a self-taught drummer now residing in Melbourne, Australia. His time here has seen him touring and recording with artists such as: Kimbra, Miami Horror, Ecca Vandal and his own band The New Caledonia. During his time with Kimbra, Stan played on her acclaimed debut…

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Percussion Ensemble was founded in 1991 by Daryl Pratt. Members of the ensemble, all percussion students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, perform a variety of works for percussion ranging from transcriptions to contemporary classical and jazz with an emphasis on works by Australian composers….

Synergy Percussion is an amazing 3 piece sonic art collective. It is percussion at its core but if you dig deeper, you’ll find it is human, stone, wood, steel, air, and skin, all coming together, all being reassembled, re-appropriated, re-interpreted, re-contextualised. Synergy’s expansive vision of percussion has allowed the group…

Since 1997 Taikoz has developed an international reputation for vibrant performances that couple explosive energy and extreme dynamism with refinement and grace. From the most delicate melodies of the shakuhachi to the thunderous impact of the odaiko, Taikoz is at once meditative and free-spirited, primal and dramatic.

Senior School students from Thomas Hassall Anglican College in Sydney’s south-west (Middleton Grange) come together once a week to learn modern arrangements of traditional rhythms from North-West Africa. Mr Byron Mark, their teacher, has spent some time in Guinea and brings a fresh edge and authenticity to the drum-circle sound….

Thomas Lang has headlined almost every major international drum festival in the world and has toured the globe many times as a solo artist. As a session musician he played for artists such as Paul Gilbert/StOrk, Robert Fripp, Asia, Nik Kershaw, Robbie Williams, Kelly Clarkson, Ronan Keating, and George Michael…

Since the mid-nineties Australian born, LA based drummer, Virgil Donati has been a household name, performing and touring with the likes of Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Vai and Allan Holdsworth, while also maintaining a busy schedule as a band leader and member of numerous recording and touring bands.